Virginia Democrats push controversial gun control bills through Senate committee
by Spencer Neale
| January 13, 2020 04:31 PM
Long lines filed outside the Virginia General Assembly and hundreds of NRA gun rights activists flooded the Capitol on the same day that the state's Democratic senators passed a number of gun control bills in a committee.
Every gun control bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, except the most controversial one. Democratic Sen. Dick Saslaw's proposed Senate Bill 16 prohibiting "any person from importing, selling, transferring, manufacturing, purchasing, possessing, or transporting an assault firearm" was struck from the docket early in the morning.
Democrats in the state's House of Delegates will instead focus on House Bill 961, a slightly weaker bill with similar language, that would allow Virginians to keep their assault rifles if they register ownership with the Virginia State Police.
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